And she charged him to make the following announcement to all the men-at-arms: "Confess your sins and thank God for the victory.
If you do not, the Maid will never help you more and will not remain in your company."[1023] [Footnote 1023: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

106.] The Saint-Loup bastion, attacked by fifteen hundred French, had been defended by only three hundred English.

That they made no vigorous defence is indicated by the fact that only two or three Frenchmen were slain.[1024] It was not by any severe mental effort or profound calculation that the French King's men had gained this advantage.

It had cost them little, and yet it was immense.

It meant the cutting off of the besiegers' communications with Jargeau: it meant the opening of the upper Loire: it was the first step towards the raising of the siege.